Hosts File

I've got your number

"...the Hosts file is like an address book. When you type an address like www.yahoo.com into your browser, the Hosts file is consulted to see if you have the IP address, or "telephone number," for that site. If you do, then your computer will "call it" and the site will open. If not, your computer will ask your ISP's (internet service provider) computer for the phone number before it can "call" that site.
Most of the time, you do not have addresses in your "address book," because you have not put any there. Therefore, most of the time your computer asks for the IP address from your ISP to find sites."

What is a Hosts file?

MVPS.org has a Hosts file that you can download and install. It includes a BAT file that renames the old file before it saves the new one.
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Busted Links

Verify

With the Expression Web Designer go to Site>Reports>Problems>Hyperlinks.
You will able to check if any links have failed and need to be fixed.

There are a few third-party shareware programs that do the same thing.

One of them is:

Xenu's Link Sleuth

It's free and will create a report that can be saved for reference.


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CSS Links

Some of the Best

If you have an interest in Cascading Style sheets, look at a few of these tutorials and downloads.

"CSS Creator site is a place for you to learn about and create CSS, Cascading Style Sheets. The CSS Forum is a place where you can discuss CSS page layouts, positioning, bugs and just about anything related to cascading style sheets.
The forum is new, free and most of all needs people like you to create a community. Talk about CSS, ask questions, find solutions, and help each other learn at the CSS Forum."

CSS Creator.com has a collection of links to valuable Web design information.


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Video without sidebar

Avoid collateral references

Sometime the appropriate video has inappropriate links next to it. Here's how to embed just what you want

AskDaveTaylor.com


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CSS Basics

Tutorial

Cascading Style Sheets can help to unify site design.
Here are some tips:

HTMLGoodies.com


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Bullets and HTML

Some code

Bullets aren’t too difficult to create using HTML.

<ul>

<li>Apples</li>

<li>Pears</li>

<li>Bananas</li>

<li>Grapes</li>

</ul>

Here’s an article that goes into more detail:


Cryer.co.uk


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Low Down Footer

CSS code

How to create a CSS footer that remains at the bottom of the page, regardless of content.

CSSStickyFooter.com


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Facebook Fan Page

How to

You can design your own Facebook Fan page.

AskDaveTaylor.com


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CSS Reference

Also HTML and JaveScript

Properties, Concepts, Examples

Sitepoint.com


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CSS Menus

For the coder

Alan Gresley from Australia has an interesting site that includes the CSS code to create menus. One of the styles is called "Sons of Ursidae Menus".

CSS-Class.com


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YouTube Time Link

To the second

You can link directly to a specific time in a YouTube video. All you have to do is add a #t= anchor to the end of the URL that indicates the time position in minutes and seconds.

Here are the instructions:

Cadenhead.org


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Animated Signs

Move it

A free collection of animated GIFs.



AnimationLibrary.com


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Short History of the Internet

8 minutes

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Blog Control

Scripts

Using CSS on Blogs is not difficult. Here is a site that shows how to do many things including using different background images for different times of day.

BloggerBuster.com


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Increase DLs

More bits

This is a registry hack that controls the number of downloads you can have at one time.

HowToGeek.com


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CSS Templates

Free samples and suggestions

"Solucija offers a selection of some of the most popular web templates available today. Whether you're looking for a free web template, premium one, or an inspiration - you'll find it here. All our templates are hand coded, standards compliant and can be easily used as a standalone templates or in combination with CMS to create a fully dynamic site."

Solucija.com


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Versionista

Web monitor

Versionista monitors web sites and alerts you by email of any changes. It also displays the changes visually on the page.
Here's one mention from the news:

Rachel Maddow

Versionista.com


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Blog Using Word

Easy Editor

Taylor Gibb explains how to set it up.

 Blog with Word


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How Google Works

Backstage

Here's what's going on behind the scenes.

• Googlebot, a web crawler that finds and fetches web pages.
• The indexer that sorts every word on every page and stores the resulting index of words in a huge database.
• The query processor, which compares your search query to the index and recommends the documents that it considers most relevant.

GoogleGuide.com


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Flight Status

Where da plane?

An easy way to find out whether Aunt Mable's plane is on time is to type the airline name and number into Google (or Bing).




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